If you're at all inclined to be swept away to the U.S. Virgin Islands to fall in love with a rainforest jumbie house and a lead character who's as much a threat to herself as the bad guys on the island are, you'll love this book. It's funny, touching, and exciting. Officially, it's summarized like this: Texas attorney Katie Connell escapes professional humiliation, a broken heart, and her Bloody Mary-habit when she runs to the island of St. Marcos to investigate the suspicious deaths of her … [Read more...] about Saving Grace by Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Husbands May Come and Go but Friends are Forever by Judith Marshall
The story takes place in Northern California in the spring of 2000, when the dot-com boom was at its peak. Elizabeth Reilly-Hayden is a successful executive in her late fifties and a divorced mother of two. Emotionally armored and living alone, she wants only to maintain the status quo: her long-term significant other, her job, and her trusted friends—five feisty women whose high school friendship has carried them through multiple marriages, dramatic divorces, and maddening menopause. Yet in a … [Read more...] about Husbands May Come and Go but Friends are Forever by Judith Marshall
Suburban Task Force
Suburban Task Force is a humor filled, high octane, action-comedy. It follows Jade Lydell, who at thirty one finds herself living the surreal life of a married suburbanite. Her simple, and now materialistic days are busy with shopping, drinking and playing with couples that live the same high-end lifestyle. It takes a home invasion scare and a co-workers brutal mugging to wake Jade from her suburban slumber. The adventure begins when she and her two best friends forgo an uplifting spa retreat … [Read more...] about Suburban Task Force
Dolls Behaving Badly by Cinthia Ritchie
Carla Richards is many things: an Alaska waitress who secretly makes erotic dolls for extra income; a divorcee who can't quite detach from her ex-husband; and a single mom trying to support her gifted eight-year-old son, her pregnant sister and her babysitter-turned-resident-teenager. She's one overdue bill away from completely losing control--when inspiration strikes in the form of a TV personality. Now she's scribbling away in a diary, flirting with an anthropologist, and baking up desserts … [Read more...] about Dolls Behaving Badly by Cinthia Ritchie
Unloched by Candice Lemon-Scott
A boy. A boat. A storm. One day that will tear a family apart. But what happens to the truth that has been distorted, and the sisters who are reunited when secrets of the past are finally ... unlocked? Twin sisters Lauren and Trina are sent back to the place of their childhood vacations, on the Gippsland Lakes. With their mother’s dying wish being that they restore and sell a dilapidated houseboat, they are unwittingly brought together. Although the twins were almost inseparable … [Read more...] about Unloched by Candice Lemon-Scott
City of Angeles by Marlayna Glynn Brown
City of Angeles is the second book in the trilogy Memoirs of Marlayna Glynn Brown. Continuing her remarkable journey in staccato prose, author Marlayna Glynn Brown reveals the underside of a life lived in 1980s Los Angeles, picking up from the moment in which Overlay ends. This searingly written, often bizarre story of her teens and twenties reveals the author's flight from the glitz of Las Vegas to the formidable world of self re-invention among the angels and demons populating … [Read more...] about City of Angeles by Marlayna Glynn Brown